Sustainability for a Thriving Future
I sit here writing now, in the beautiful mountains of Portugal, and the scientists are increasingly concerned that the 1.5⁰C safe(ish) threshold of planetary warming will be passed in 2027. I am in a small village surrounded by Eucalyptus plantations for the paper industry, which smell glorious but are combustible and dangerous. If you walk through the roads between the monocultures you discover pockets…
It started as a throwaway object, tattered and dirty and now it belongs to me. I don’t know where or when the pincushion came into my life, but it holds a strange attraction and I love it now. To mend something and the process of mending feels like a luxurious joy. To be held in the task and also allowed to wander in the…
After the pause of coronavirus and without a pause on Brexit, our family has decided to move to Portugal. It’s been on the cards since the vote in 2016 – my husband is Portuguese and his family are in and around Lisbon. The idea of losing the benefits that Europe offers, well, we just can’t let that happen. FuturEcoLogic will be working in much…